how to draw non-furry humanoids better?

Posted 2 years, 14 hours ago (Edited 1 year, 11 months ago) by fawnfluff

I’ve noticed that my non-furry humanoid art & characters don’t tend to get complimented nor liked or favorited, at least not nearly as much as my furry & feral artwork. even some non-furry humanoid freebie I made took forever to be claimed haha. I’m wondering what I can do to get better at drawing them? 

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(this one is a sort of kemonomimi, so keep in mind her ears, nose & teeth aren’t meant to look human)

jessedevil

I think your humanoid art looks really cute! The style is nice, I think toyhouse users just tend to favor more detailed work (detailed=/=better or worse). As far as improvement, you can always spend some time studying and drawing people. Websites like Line of Action and Quickposes are an easy way to find reference photos, which you can then look at and try to draw best as you can. The time you spend on each drawing is up to you, though I think the best method is to do lots of quick sketches of different poses. When all is said and done, you don't necessarily need to make your artwork more realistic, but studying actual humans can help you understand proportions and make your poses more interesting. It creates a framework you can work off of and bend into any kind of design. Good luck!

Skykristal

I think your art is lovely already! Agreeing with above that detailed art seems to be more liked. However it depends on style too. I see none detailed art getting lots of traction too but it's mainy chibi. I think you could work on your anatomy a little more. Choose some nice poses, stuff like that. Pretty poses can make a big difference. Right now, the poses still seem quite stiff and mainy font view. With a little bit of variation it can already improve it a lot ^^.

But it also seems that furry or feral stuff performs a lot better. I experience this myself. It doesn't necessarily mean that your non furry work is bad when that's the case. You just need to find your niche. And especially when you don't draw how the majority tends to draw (such as anime , chibi, other popular styles) its harder. But please keep doing what you love. Always push yourself more, jump out of your comfort zone and practice. Searching up tutorials or simply pose references is always what helps me a lot.

cnaaawd

i mean, look at it this way:


you just won a raffle and have a choice between two adopts; you can pick whichever one you want and theyre yours.

would you rather choose the anthro animal, which could be one of a thousand different types of species, is incredibly colourful, could have wings or sharp teeth or horns, etc, and could have fun 'lore' things like what food they eat as a species, whether they can swim or fly, etc!

or would you like the human, with potentially cool clothes on, and maybe they have some animal traits. 


humans arent BORING so to speak, but next to furries? they totally are! plus, the furry community has a HUGE member count that all label themselves as part of the community *specifically* because they like the animals on two legs

i very much advise you to start mingling in more humanoid-heavy spaces on this website, and see what adopts sell and why! a simple human with fun clothes and a colour theme wont go as fast as a kemonomimi with fun clothes and a colour theme for sure


best of luck!!!